Axel Barceló Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
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  • Research staff, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
  • PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2000.

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Full time researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas [Institute for Philosophical Research] at the National University of Mexico,
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  1. Axel Arturo Barceló Aspeitia (forthcoming). Words and Images in Argumentation. Argumentation:-.
    In this essay, I will argue that images can play a substantial role in argumentation: exploiting information from the context, they can contribute directly and substantially to the communication of the propositions that play the roles of premises and conclusion. Furthermore, they can achieve this directly, i.e. without the need of verbalization. I will ground this claim by presenting and analyzing some arguments where images are essential to the argumentation process.
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  2. Axel Barceló Aspeitia, Ángeles Eraña & Robert Stainton (2010). The Contribution of Domain Specificity in the Highly Modular Mind. Minds and Machines 20 (1):19-27.
    Is there a notion of domain specificity which affords genuine insight in the context of the highly modular mind, i.e. a mind which has not only input modules, but also central ‘conceptual’ modules? Our answer to this question is no. The main argument is simple enough: we lay out some constraints that a theoretically useful notion of domain specificity, in the context of the highly modular mind, would need to meet. We then survey a host of accounts of what domain (...)
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